My chameleon

[GregW]

My son with my Tamatave Panther Chameleon who died last night at the ripe old age of six.

 

[debfife]

Wow he's awesome!

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Phyl]

How sad. Is 6 old for them? Sorry for your loss. Sierra would have LOVED to get to play with that one. Was your son devastate?

 

[GregW]

Thanks Phyllis. Five years is the average. My two older boys are 8 and 12 and I told them this morning. I haven't told my four year old yet. He used to love it when the chameleon would take a silkworm from his hand with his foot long tongue.

 

[Brian]

Sorry to hear that Greg, that was a cool looking chameleon! I can't believe you could have it outside and not have it run away.

 

[GregW]

Sorry to hear that Greg, that was a cool looking chameleon! I can't believe you could have it outside and not have it run away.

He was really cool. When I would open the cage door he would crawl onto my arm then perch on my head. Funny how you get attached to these critters. I was going to try to breed them but the female turned out to be a runt. The females are about half the size of the males so it was about a year before I realized she wasn't going to grow anymore. And at $300 each I wasn't going to try again.

I never had to worry about him running away since he was about as slow as a turtle on the ground.



Here's another one that I had a few years ago about to make a meal out of a silkworm. This one is a Jackson's chameleon:

 

[MadReefer]

Awesome looking Greg. Sorry for your loss. My son has a Beardy fairly young and its has some color. His leopard geckos that just laid eggs and we're trying to hatch them out.

 

[GregW]

Thanks.

You can find a ton of info about hatching them on kingsnake.com